I never quite knew why they brought her back, especially since it was Jensen that most fans seemed to like. I wish there were more clips of the Megan/Sarah relationship.
This is one of the most chilling depictions of rape ever in a soap and yes there were a lot of rape storylines at the time but this storyline on oltl absolutely did not romanticize rape and showed the raw horror of rape as an act of control and a violent crime - the only other rape storyline that does as good a job is the tv show hunter where didi was raped and for the 80s it was very graphic and violent and all these years later still can’t forget it
@@renealexander2703 that was much later after i stopped watching oltl so I didn’t see that- by then tv soaps had gotten a lot more gratuitous but in the context of the 80s and late 80s this was horrible
Rex should have been Bo and Sarah's son. Like when Carlo kidnapped Sarah she was pregnant, be she and Bo weren't aware of it. Then Sarah gave birth and Carlo stole the baby (Rex) and gave sold him to Walter and Roxy. We could do a better job writing for soaps :-).
Was Austin related to the Buchanans? I remember someone telling me that this was one of the soap rape stories which truly showed the horror of rape, and that seems to be true going by this clip. Thank you for posting these clips. Very good work from Jensen Buchanan.
@@njpubadjuster3710 yes Austin was the black sheep of the family. He was asa's brother Pikes brothers son. So asa was his uncle & bo & clint first cousins. Renee being a nice woman who over the years always took in people who were needy had accidentally caused Austin's reign of terror for months. Austin had killed a guy back in texas in a bar fight. Asa had testified against his nephew causing a rift between him & his brother. I'm kinda surprised asa did that b/c he was all about " Buchanan's stick together " he told renee how much he loved his brother. Anyway I think asa saw austin as a bad seed. Austin came to town asking asa for a job or financial help as he was just released from doing 10 years in prison. Asa gave him the boot but renee always had a soft spot for under dogs & austin manipulated her by going on about how sorry he was & had changed. So she begged him to stay in town & show asa & his cousins he had changed & reunite w/ asa b/c her main goal was also to reunite asa w/ his estranged brother. If asa was nice to austin she figured his brother would come around. Asa told her how crushed he was that he & pike had not spoken for a decade. Anyway Austin told renee at the old popular location the waterside inn ( what happened to that place? I think the set later became the bayberry inn where blair & Dorian dressed up as marilyn monroe & todd & tea spent Christmas there a couple years later ) the palace hotel was the holden tower owned by max & then micheal & gabrielle stole it out from under him & became the " llainview grand " anyway renee was pushing for austin not to give up on asa & to have dinner w/ her. He told renee he really wanted to leave & did not want her buying him dinner again. They went back & forth in the lobby long enough for bo & sarah to walk in. Austin took one look at sarah & was obsessed. Renee actually introduced austin to sarah & reintroduced him to bo. I think it also was gonna be partly austin was always jealous of bo. When they were talking bo seemed nice enough to austin until Austin lied & said " sorry cousin I hope ur not mad at me for stealing ur girl & whipping the tar out of u " bo being the good guy of the show immediately corrected him & said " um no I got the girl & I beat u up " & austin makes a face showing that really was the truth. Then bo & sarah strolled off & austin tells renee " on second thought I'm gonna stay in town. " cue the sinister music ! I gotta say in watching old austin clips I was shocked to see him punch our or slap around a few women on the show. I'd never seem that on oltl again. He belted gabrielle, megan I think viki & sarah. Sarah's rape was really brutal. Which reminds me during todd manning's own reign of terror in his early years who was worse him or austin ? Young todd & austin would have been some scary match up. Austin raped Sarah rigged Micheal grande's breaks b/c he wanted to frame bo b/c he saw that Micheal & bo had a fued over fraternity row & other buisness deals. So Austin by rigging micheals breaks wanted bo to be blamed & in his twisted mind he would get sarah w/ bo in prison. So austin killed alicia & her baby & injured gabrielle. This led to Gabriella switching micheals dead son w/ brenda 's alive son steven holden ( Max's nephew) austin of course showed up when gabby switched the kids so he was blackmailing her for large sums of money or he would tell. He kidnapped megan & viki as hostages & shot viki. So he raped murdered a baby & his mom blackmailed kidnapped & almost killed viki in only months on the show. I totally thought todd after raping Marty w/ the other 2 frat boys was gonna get the austin death or sent to prison. Roger of course won the emmy & the fans loved him so he stayed. They were going to write him out for sure but we know that didnt happen. They watered todd down so much that I could not believe mitch lawrence got the best of him. No way would he have matched up against early very cunning smart todd manning.
@@njpubadjuster3710 I still remember when Austin's hand was coming up out of the ground in the promos for this storyline! Yes, it was eerie! He tormented Sarah. He almost drove her completely insane.
That's crazy. I guess that was Linda Gottleib, she did seem to be a bit of a strange producer. Why even bring Sarah back if she had no idea who originally played her or how well liked the actress was.
As played by Jensen Buchanan, Sarah was my favorite soap character of all time. And then when they brought Sarah back, and killed her again, I think it took years for me to forgive OLTL!!! lol
Lol, I never did. I stopped watching after they killed her off. Grace Phillips did a good job. When Jensen went to Another World I knew she could play Marley, it took several months for her to nail a scene for me to say, "And THERE is Vicky!"
Mine too! Loved Jensen Buchanan as Sarah :-) I didn't get the recast, but eventually Grace Philips grew on me too. The last straw was Sarah dying in the car accident with Bo (On Thanksgiving Eve). SThat was end of my Stint with OLTL
Right. A few people on here are praising "Jensen Buchanan's" performance in these clips. The first part of the clip is Grace Phillips, who gave a great performance here and definitely had the right energy to make her a great recast. Unfortunately, the writing wasn't always kind to her Sarah. Then-headwriter Malone & EP Linda Gottlieb really did not get this character - nor did they seem to care to; clearly they had their own ideas about who she should be, a needy, shrinking violet in need of a male savior... they did the same with Laura Bonarrigo's Cassie. Phillips was let go precisely because she lobbied the show's fans response back to Malone & Gottlieb. You just didn't question Gottlieb at OLTL... if you did, you were out (see Mia Korf, Elaine Princi, Joey Thrower).
EIJefeNLA, I totally agree with you. I was like 5 about to be 6 in 1989 when Cricket a.k.a Christine Blair was raped by Dereke on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS. As I watched that happen to her I felt so bad I started slapping the TV....lol I know that sounds crazy but its true. I don't think I will ever forget it.
Like one viewer said rape during the late 80s and early 90s was a lot. Mainly because there was people who wrote for the shows, as good as some of the writers were, tried capitalizing on the subject matter like GH did with Luke/Laura. Rape during this time period was made to give certain villians an edge to their characters and a lot of times these rapes didn't have education just shock value. Thankfully OLTL and GH through Marty's and Liz's rapes we viewers got the education and it wasn't viewed as an act of seduction.
@VickRobCal Wow really that's Jensen B. dang i thought you were supposed to get uglier as you got older but instead she got prettier. But I TOTALLY GIVER HER PROPS, SHE TOTALLY ROCKED THIS PART OF HER CHARACTERS STORY LINE!!! I miss not seeing her on tv!!
This was brutal. Poor sarah got pregnant too by austin. I cant imagine. Austin's reign of terror was really bad. Reminds me of Todd's. I thought of austin & figured todd would get the Austin treatment a death or prison & gone from the show. Well that was supposed to be the plan. I totally thought when luna bashed his head in he would die but I think the writers wanted his reign of terror like Austin's to go on but the fans started loving todd & roger got the emmy nod & then won that's when I think they finally saw what a really complex young good looking actor they had on their hands who also was an emmy winning 24 year old. How did they not see before they wrote him into some seriously bad corner that he was a keeper? His whole purpose was to be a spolier for Leanne & jason ( he had zack plant pot on him ) & to show how low & alone marty was that she took a guy home she barely knew from school to bed then begged him to hold her & he walked out. That was supposed to be it for todd but the writers must have liked him b/c they kept him & kept writing for him & than malone came up w/ the gang rape to do a " girl who cries wolf " ( remember she spread lies the year before about andrew being gay & seducing an underaged boy in billy douglas. ) also it was to redeem Marty b/c she was the town pariah for those lies & other things. Lastly malone had always loved this character Marty that he created. He wanted Susan to win an emmy as she was nominated the year before & lost. Never did he imagine her ring leader rapist would come out this phenom & win an emmy too not to mention another one of his fave creations nora as his defense attorney who throws the case in the end.
Todd was initially created for the purpose of the gang-rape story. It wasn't until later that they saw the caliber of Howarth's acting and did what they could to keep him.
I never quite knew why they brought her back, especially since it was Jensen that most fans seemed to like. I wish there were more clips of the Megan/Sarah relationship.
This is one of the most chilling depictions of rape ever in a soap and yes there were a lot of rape storylines at the time but this storyline on oltl absolutely did not romanticize rape and showed the raw horror of rape as an act of control and a violent crime - the only other rape storyline that does as good a job is the tv show hunter where didi was raped and for the 80s it was very graphic and violent and all these years later still can’t forget it
I think the rape of Marty by Todd Manning was worse.
@@renealexander2703 that was much later after i stopped watching oltl so I didn’t see that- by then tv soaps had gotten a lot more gratuitous but in the context of the 80s and late 80s this was horrible
@@overcomerbtboj , oh okay. I don't blame you about losing interest in OLTL. I stopped watching the show in 1994.
Eden's rape on Santa Barbara was chilling also. Evn more so for the lack of background sound.
Yeah. Sarah didn't deserve that. It was so sad. Glad. He died. POS Austin. He was mean
Rex should have been Bo and Sarah's son. Like when Carlo kidnapped Sarah she was pregnant, be she and Bo weren't aware of it. Then Sarah gave birth and Carlo stole the baby (Rex) and gave sold him to Walter and Roxy.
We could do a better job writing for soaps :-).
Was Austin related to the Buchanans? I remember someone telling me that this was one of the soap rape stories which truly showed the horror of rape, and that seems to be true going by this clip. Thank you for posting these clips. Very good work from Jensen Buchanan.
Austin was a jealous Buchanan cousin.
@@njpubadjuster3710 yes Austin was the black sheep of the family. He was asa's brother Pikes brothers son. So asa was his uncle & bo & clint first cousins. Renee being a nice woman who over the years always took in people who were needy had accidentally caused Austin's reign of terror for months. Austin had killed a guy back in texas in a bar fight. Asa had testified against his nephew causing a rift between him & his brother. I'm kinda surprised asa did that b/c he was all about " Buchanan's stick together " he told renee how much he loved his brother. Anyway I think asa saw austin as a bad seed. Austin came to town asking asa for a job or financial help as he was just released from doing 10 years in prison. Asa gave him the boot but renee always had a soft spot for under dogs & austin manipulated her by going on about how sorry he was & had changed. So she begged him to stay in town & show asa & his cousins he had changed & reunite w/ asa b/c her main goal was also to reunite asa w/ his estranged brother. If asa was nice to austin she figured his brother would come around. Asa told her how crushed he was that he & pike had not spoken for a decade. Anyway Austin told renee at the old popular location the waterside inn ( what happened to that place? I think the set later became the bayberry inn where blair & Dorian dressed up as marilyn monroe & todd & tea spent Christmas there a couple years later ) the palace hotel was the holden tower owned by max & then micheal & gabrielle stole it out from under him & became the " llainview grand " anyway renee was pushing for austin not to give up on asa & to have dinner w/ her. He told renee he really wanted to leave & did not want her buying him dinner again. They went back & forth in the lobby long enough for bo & sarah to walk in. Austin took one look at sarah & was obsessed. Renee actually introduced austin to sarah & reintroduced him to bo. I think it also was gonna be partly austin was always jealous of bo. When they were talking bo seemed nice enough to austin until Austin lied & said " sorry cousin I hope ur not mad at me for stealing ur girl & whipping the tar out of u " bo being the good guy of the show immediately corrected him & said " um no I got the girl & I beat u up " & austin makes a face showing that really was the truth. Then bo & sarah strolled off & austin tells renee " on second thought I'm gonna stay in town. " cue the sinister music ! I gotta say in watching old austin clips I was shocked to see him punch our or slap around a few women on the show. I'd never seem that on oltl again. He belted gabrielle, megan I think viki & sarah. Sarah's rape was really brutal. Which reminds me during todd manning's own reign of terror in his early years who was worse him or austin ? Young todd & austin would have been some scary match up. Austin raped Sarah rigged Micheal grande's breaks b/c he wanted to frame bo b/c he saw that Micheal & bo had a fued over fraternity row & other buisness deals. So Austin by rigging micheals breaks wanted bo to be blamed & in his twisted mind he would get sarah w/ bo in prison. So austin killed alicia & her baby & injured gabrielle. This led to Gabriella switching micheals dead son w/ brenda 's alive son steven holden ( Max's nephew) austin of course showed up when gabby switched the kids so he was blackmailing her for large sums of money or he would tell. He kidnapped megan & viki as hostages & shot viki. So he raped murdered a baby & his mom blackmailed kidnapped & almost killed viki in only months on the show. I totally thought todd after raping Marty w/ the other 2 frat boys was gonna get the austin death or sent to prison. Roger of course won the emmy & the fans loved him so he stayed. They were going to write him out for sure but we know that didnt happen. They watered todd down so much that I could not believe mitch lawrence got the best of him. No way would he have matched up against early very cunning smart todd manning.
@@natalieps2387 Nice memory for something that happened more than 30 years ago.
@@njpubadjuster3710 I still remember when Austin's hand was coming up out of the ground in the promos for this storyline! Yes, it was eerie! He tormented Sarah. He almost drove her completely insane.
That's crazy. I guess that was Linda Gottleib, she did seem to be a bit of a strange producer. Why even bring Sarah back if she had no idea who originally played her or how well liked the actress was.
This was back when women were raped left and right on soap operas. It was horrible to watch. Eden on SB, Jen on Days. It was too much then.
Santa Barbara was the WORST soap to handle rape..On that soap opera..A woman was raped EVERY 20 minutes !!!
@@MrCraigblaze My God yes!! Eden's was the most brutal! Unless I blocked out others
@@ElJefeNLA The Carnation Killer (although there were no scenes depicting the act), did that to numerous women before he killed them.
@@MrCraigblaze 😂 😂 😂 OMG
As played by Jensen Buchanan, Sarah was my favorite soap character of all time. And then when they brought Sarah back, and killed her again, I think it took years for me to forgive OLTL!!! lol
I never did especially since it was to make room for nora.
I never forgave OLTL for killing Sarah, Megan, Gabrielle and Al. They also ruined Vicki and Clint.
Lol, I never did. I stopped watching after they killed her off. Grace Phillips did a good job. When Jensen went to Another World I knew she could play Marley, it took several months for her to nail a scene for me to say, "And THERE is Vicky!"
@@susanbischoff4007 13 years later this still upsets me so much lol
Mine too! Loved Jensen Buchanan as Sarah :-) I didn't get the recast, but eventually Grace Philips grew on me too. The last straw was Sarah dying in the car accident with Bo (On Thanksgiving Eve). SThat was end of my Stint with OLTL
Right. A few people on here are praising "Jensen Buchanan's" performance in these clips. The first part of the clip is Grace Phillips, who gave a great performance here and definitely had the right energy to make her a great recast. Unfortunately, the writing wasn't always kind to her Sarah. Then-headwriter Malone & EP Linda Gottlieb really did not get this character - nor did they seem to care to; clearly they had their own ideas about who she should be, a needy, shrinking violet in need of a male savior... they did the same with Laura Bonarrigo's Cassie. Phillips was let go precisely because she lobbied the show's fans response back to Malone & Gottlieb. You just didn't question Gottlieb at OLTL... if you did, you were out (see Mia Korf, Elaine Princi, Joey Thrower).
I hated them for killing off sarah
Thanks. Do you know who played him? He's very good.
She was one of my favorite characters
Man, I was SO PISSED OFF when they bought back a really lousy Sarah recast only to kill her off again shortly after. What a waste!
soapunk Jensen Buchanan asked to come back and she was told a firm NO!
What was most frustrating as I recall, Jensen was open to returning, but the producer at the time, didn't know who the heck she was. ugh
Haha yeah I remember and they told her no so she ended up on Another World in may 91.
This show had a never ending obsession with rape that was sickening.
Well it's pretty accurate in society so I don't see an issue. It's not like they enjoyed the scenes
The show really went overboard with rape in the 90s and beyond.
SlickChick, Todd Manning a serial rapist became the dominant lead of the show.
EIJefeNLA, I totally agree with you. I was like 5 about to be 6 in 1989 when Cricket a.k.a Christine Blair was raped by Dereke on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS. As I watched that happen to her I felt so bad I started slapping the TV....lol I know that sounds crazy but its true. I don't think I will ever forget it.
Yes. Austin Buchanan was Bo and Clint's cousin and he was infatuated with Sarah.
Like one viewer said rape during the late 80s and early 90s was a lot. Mainly because there was people who wrote for the shows, as good as some of the writers were, tried capitalizing on the subject matter like GH did with Luke/Laura. Rape during this time period was made to give certain villians an edge to their characters and a lot of times these rapes didn't have education just shock value. Thankfully OLTL and GH through Marty's and Liz's rapes we viewers got the education and it wasn't viewed as an act of seduction.
Viewers got the education during Sarah's rape as well.
@VickRobCal Wow really that's Jensen B. dang i thought you were supposed to get uglier as you got older but instead she got prettier. But I TOTALLY GIVER HER PROPS, SHE TOTALLY ROCKED THIS PART OF HER CHARACTERS STORY LINE!!! I miss not seeing her on tv!!
Prettier? You have to be kidding. I guess yo haven't seen this www.noozhawk.com/article/probation_violation_hearing_begins_jensen_buchanan_20180302
He looked kinda weak I could've fought him off
😂😂😂😂
I kept telling her to knee him in his bits.
This was brutal. Poor sarah got pregnant too by austin. I cant imagine. Austin's reign of terror was really bad. Reminds me of Todd's. I thought of austin & figured todd would get the Austin treatment a death or prison & gone from the show. Well that was supposed to be the plan. I totally thought when luna bashed his head in he would die but I think the writers wanted his reign of terror like Austin's to go on but the fans started loving todd & roger got the emmy nod & then won that's when I think they finally saw what a really complex young good looking actor they had on their hands who also was an emmy winning 24 year old. How did they not see before they wrote him into some seriously bad corner that he was a keeper? His whole purpose was to be a spolier for Leanne & jason ( he had zack plant pot on him ) & to show how low & alone marty was that she took a guy home she barely knew from school to bed then begged him to hold her & he walked out. That was supposed to be it for todd but the writers must have liked him b/c they kept him & kept writing for him & than malone came up w/ the gang rape to do a " girl who cries wolf " ( remember she spread lies the year before about andrew being gay & seducing an underaged boy in billy douglas. ) also it was to redeem Marty b/c she was the town pariah for those lies & other things. Lastly malone had always loved this character Marty that he created. He wanted Susan to win an emmy as she was nominated the year before & lost. Never did he imagine her ring leader rapist would come out this phenom & win an emmy too not to mention another one of his fave creations nora as his defense attorney who throws the case in the end.
Todd was initially created for the purpose of the gang-rape story. It wasn't until later that they saw the caliber of Howarth's acting and did what they could to keep him.
Jensen Buchanan. Why do you ask ?
This girl looked like Jensen.
I couldn't stand austin!
Uh oh what the hell is going on
me too!
I love this scene
Can't stand JB!
gave me a bone